Iron Man 3 (2013)

Iron Man 3 Synopsis

Marvel Studios’ Iron Man 3 pits brash-but-brilliant industrialist Tony Stark/Iron Man against an enemy whose reach knows no bounds. When Stark finds his personal world destroyed at his enemy's hands, he embarks on a harrowing quest to find those responsible. This journey, at every turn, will test his mettle. With his back against the wall, Stark is left to survive by his own devices, relying on his ingenuity and instincts to protect those closest to him. As he fights his way back, Stark discovers the answer to the question that has secretly haunted him: does the man make the suit or does the suit make the man?

Starring Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Rebecca Hall, Stephanie Szostak, James Badge Dale with Jon Favreau and Ben Kingsley, “Iron Man 3” is directed by Shane Black from a screenplay by Drew Pearce and Shane Black and is based on Marvel’s iconic Super Hero Iron Man, who first appeared on the pages of “Tales of Suspense” (#39) in 1963 and had his solo comic book debut with “The Invincible Iron Man” (#1) in May of 1968.

Do you love Marvel movies? Do you love them so much that you could watch them for 29 straight hours? Well, then I have some amazing news for you, as two of the nation's biggest theater chains are planning marathons of that very nature leading up to special early screenings of The Avengers: Age of Ultron.

A lot can change between storyboarding a movie scene and what audiences see as the final product. In the case of Iron Man 3, one character’s death scene happened a different way in the planning stages.

Poor Jon Favreau. Not only was he replaced by Shane Black as Iron Man 3’s director but it has now been revealed that his character, Happy Hogan, was originally supposed to die in the blockbuster. Thankfully the studio had a change of heart and decided that Happy would end up in a coma instead.

After months and months of teasing the fulfillment of The Mandarin/Ten Rings storyline first hinted at the start of the franchise, Iron Man 3's revelation that The Mandarin was actually just an act portrayed by a washed up stage actor either pissed you off or really entertained you.

Above is a neat-o little video regarding the history of the onscreen Marvel universe, and the various nods and Easter Eggs regarding each film thus far - from the studio's first (Iron Man) to its tenth, this weekend's Guardians Of The Galaxy. Well, technically its eighth, since it stops before Captain America: The Winter Soldier, which doesn't hit Blu-ray/ DVD until September 9th.

Pearce goes on to rave about Iron Man 3 as a finished product, calling it a “great movie.” But you can't blame him for seeking this Get Out Of Jail Free card if the script sucked. Even if an actor does see a finished script, it's a massive leap of faith that the director is going to be able to put the pieces together and provide a decent interpretation (unless, of course, the script is re-written).

Thanks to some unbridled critical and box office success, practically everyone in the world knows the big stars of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Iron Man, Thor, Hulk and Captain America (and the actors who play them) are all not only true blue household names, and the same can be said for their females leads and villains. But what about the supporting players of the big screen comic book world?

As a result, we have nine films worth of unanswered questions, unresolved cliffhangers and nagging mysteries that no one has been in a rush to conclude. Knowing Marvel, some of these topics could become major story ideas at a later date, while others could be completely forgotten forever.

The One-Shot introduction stops short of Trevor actually telling us anything important. I’m guessing the “meat” of this short still waist or us in the clip. Maybe Trevor, while in prison, runs into members of The Ten Rings, and realizes what a mistake it was to impersonate a legit threat like The Mandarin.

Regardless, The People’s Choice Awards were held last night and it was announced that the Favorite Movie of the year was Shane Black'sIron Man 3 - which actually is about to be lapped by The Hunger Games: Catching Fire as 2013's biggest film. Apparently The Hunger Games was released after the cutoff date for this celebration of avarice.

2013 has been a great year for movies, so narrowing down our list of favorites was no easy task. As Cinema Blend has numerous writers with varying tastes in film, we decided to go solo this year in sharing our Top 10 lists of the best movies of 2013. You've read both Sean and Kristy's lists, but now it's Eric's turn to rank the best blockbusters, indies and prestige films that came to us this past year.

If we’re going by dollars (and not ticket sales), we can finally conclude that 2013 is the biggest year for movies in history. Which is to be expected, given inflation, though ’13 only barely passes ’12 on the way to $11 billion in ticket sales stateside.

Of course, you could blame sites like ours, who dedicatedly share whatever we can find out about new movies with you. But really, you're to blame too because of course you click the links to these stories. It's supply and demand, and its drive is insatiable.

Latino Review says it's definitely a One Shot, meaning Kingsley reteamed with the Iron Man 3 crew to create a short film that will be a self-contained story that can also set up world-building for future Marvel projects.

If you’ve been keeping tabs, the fall TV season is upon us, which means there are a lot of last year’s TV sets hitting Blu-ray and DVD this week, again. While there are a few cable favorites sprinkled in like new Doctor Who and South Park sets, a lot of these are network shows.

Thor and Captain America have been getting plenty of attention as of late thanks to splashy presentations at San Diego Comic-Con and Disney’s D23 Expo that Robert Downey Jr.’s ego must be bruised. Slightly. But good news for him, shell head is soaring back onto our radars thanks to a pending home video release on September 24th.

Can we talk openly about Ben Kingsley's actual role in Iron Man 3 yet? When the giant summer blockbuster first opened Kingsley's performance was one of the biggest surprises, especially for a film that felt like it had been marketed so heavily that there were no surprises left. Kingsley's Mandarin is revealed in the middle of the film

You would assume that all these Chinese influences would result in major cash for the studios-- why else do they do anything?-- but a report at The Hollywood Reporter says that's not actually working out so well. The China Film Group, a state-run organization that is the only importer of foreign films in the country, has reportedly stopped paying Hollywood studios their share of the profits from films released since late 2012

The week of San Diego Comic-Con is always a big one for Marvel Studios, and 2013 is no different. Not only has it been announced that concept art for both Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Thor: The Dark World will be available as posters at the studio’s booth on the convention floor, today we also have all of the awesome specs for the upcoming home video release of Iron Man 3.

Don't cry for Disney. Thanks to the wild success of their first three releases of 2013, they've become the first studio this year to gross a billion dollars at the domestic box office. And just think how much more they are making in merchandizing.

We all know James Cameron loves 3D. As shown in Avatar, he feels the device is a filmmaking tool that can enhance storytelling and spectacle. However, that's not to say he thinks every movie should get the 3D treatment - even if they are big budget action-adventures.

Walt Disney Home Entertainment announced the release on Friday, noting that 3D Blu-ray, Blu-ray and DVD copies will hit shelves on September 24. However, fans who are just interested in catching Tony Stark on his latest adventure and through some marital spats with Pepper Potts will be able to do so early if they purchase a digital copy of the film. Digital copies will be available through various outlets beginning on September 3.

Shane Black’s Iron Man sequel has earned an estimated $1.18 billion in worldwide ticket sales. It joins Marvel’s The Avengers, which sits at number three on the all-time charts with $1.51 billion. Can the third Iron Man surpass Joss Whedon’s ensemble drama? Probably not.

The clip is pretty funny, with references to the film's similarities to The Incredibles, and the presence of Batman poking holes in the Iron Man plot holes … only to have Tony fire back at The Dark Knight Rises. It all ends with The Avengers in a nod, and a Christmas joke for the Shane Black fans. Give it a spin

There has been a lot of build up for the first of what are likely to be many more sequels in the Star Trek franchise reboot and it's arrival didn't disappoint at the box office, though it didn't quite manage to outperform its predecessor.

Tony Stark gets his happy ending in Iron Man 3, and damn did he ever earn it. Facing off against the Mandarin and Aldrich Killian, seeing Pepper Potts's life put in danger, having to team up with a wisecracking child, for God's sake… the guy deserves a break. If you've seen Iron Man 3-- and you probably have, based on the insane box office numbers

With its global box office total crossing $1 billion, the action-packed blockbuster becomes the second Marvel/Disney collaboration to pass that point. The Avengers managed to make that mark in 19 days, a world-record the superhero epic shared with James Cameron's Avatar.

As movies like Iron Man 3 and Oblivion proved, we’ll show up when the studio finally opens the movie here. Shane Black’s sequel has banked $298M domestically to date, but a whopping $685M overseas. We just aren’t the powerful movie launch pad we once were, sad as that has become to admit.

"Together with face replacement and full body doubles, somewhere there was a solution to the problem of not having Robert Downey Jr. on set for the time,” explains VFX supervisor Chris Townsend. “The collective VFX Supes and unit leads ran into a room as soon as the incident happened to try to ascertain what sequences could they shoot."

Iron Man 3 is an enormous hit right now, nearing $1 billion at the worldwide box office and ruling the American charts for the second weekend in a row. The Great Gatsby opened just last week and managed to stun nearly everybody by making $51 million. Summer movies are there to entertain us, sure, but they're really all about the money, and even more than we want to know the true identity of Star Trek's villain or what's really going on in Edgar Wright's The World's End

Gatsby was indeed great this weekend. Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald classic bowed in with $51 million, the third largest opening of the year to date. That was something of a financial coup for Luhrmann as The Great Gatsby made more this weekend than most of his movies have earned domestically during their entire run. But, as great as it was, it still wasn't enough to swing number one.

Don't have plans with your mom for Mother's Day yet? Go take her to see The Great Gatsby-- you'll have plenty of company. The glossy literary adaptation is exceeding nearly all box office expectations this weekend, making a whopping $19 million between midnight Thursday and Friday showings, and on track for a $53 million opening

As long as there have been movies, there have been theater owners and filmmakers willing to do pretty much anything to set themselves apart and get more people to buy tickets. But it's hard to imagine a publicity stunt as dumb and inadvertently terrifying as the one pulled in Jefferson City, Missouri last weekend

With so many titles to choose from, Netflix Instant's library can be overwhelming. So we bring you this biweekly column as a tool to cut through the clutter by highlighting some now streaming titles that pair nicely with the latest theatrical releases.

While Kevin Feige says that Iron Man will be a part of The Avengers 2, it’s clear that a new hero has to step up and assume the charismatic leadership role that RDJ has provided on screen for the past few years. Eric and Sean got together and threw out some ideas for Iron Man’s successor.

Mild spoiler warning. This article contains some plot and character references from Iron Man 3, but no major spoilers. Still, if you haven't seen the movie yet and you don't want to know any specifics about it, read no further. Iron Man 3 had no shortage of great and memorable scenes, some more exciting than others, and some just plain amusing.

The easiest and most simplistic answer is that they’ve hired the right writers and directors, geniuses like Joss Whedon, and given them the money to create special movies that have been hits with both critics and fans. Unfortunately, the truth is far more complicated than that.

Black successfully turned the tables on his audience, baiting them with the promise of a widely-anticipated character, then switching to a foe who had existed in the shadows until it was time for the film to screen. Except in doing so, Black (and Marvel) also sufficiently wiped their ass with decades of Iron Man history, reducing Shell Head’s lone significant adversary to a punchline.

I've seen Iron Man 3 twice now, and each time the audience has reacted the loudest to the same scene, which might actually be the quietest in the film. Tony Stark, using a bunch of gadgets he conjured up at Home Depot, breaks into the Miami compound where the Mandarin is hiding. He arrives in the bedroom to find the man himself

After the rest of the world had an entire week to revel in the critically acclaimed Iron Man 3, this weekend Americans finally had their chance. While they turned out in horde-like droves, resulting in the biggest weekend at the box office so far this year, Iron Man fell short of being able to do alone what he had achieved with fellow Marvel characters in last summer's Avengers: break the record for biggest opening weekend.

Anyone who was following Iron Man 3's insane grosses overseas could pretty easily predict it would have a big American opening, and the superhero threequel has lived up to most expectations. According to the early numbers at The Hollywood Reporter Iron Man 3 opened to $68.3 million on Friday, putting it on track for the $165-$170 million weekend that many insiders had predicted

With the new superhero film rolling into theaters this weekend, I recently had the wonderful opportunity to speak with both Black and Feige at a press event in Los Angeles. Check out our conversation below, in which the filmmakers talk about Christmas time, using genre-within-genre, introducing new characters to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and much more.

From the time of year that the superhero flick is set to the whip-smart dialogue to the genre and pacing, the latest Marvel Studios title is unquestionably a movie straight from the mind of its director. But how exactly does the movie fall in line with the rest of Black’s work? Read on to find out!

There’s no way that they’d willingly kill off the stream of success by ending the Iron Man franchise, especially while Robert Downey Jr. is still willing to get back into the suit for further adventures. Iron Man 4 is a lock...Or is it?

Any Blu-ray/DVD collector knows that one of the best special features that comes on a good number of discs is the director's commentary. Even if you're listening to the commentary on what you think is a bad movie, it's still interesting to know what was going through the filmmaker's head and how they came to certain decisions.

This week we each step into our individually crafted Iron Man suits-- or are we just controlling them with our minds?-- to review Iron Man 3, the movie you are probably going to see no matter what we tell you. We also share your answers to our lightning round question about panic attacks in movies

Iron Man 3, already a huge hit overseas, is preparing its American takeover this weekend. Technically you have to wait until Monday to know if a movie is a hit or not, but Disney executives are already sorting their cash into giant piles and picking out yachts to buy, because Iron Man 3 has been open in the United States for about 12 hours and is already a huge hit all over again